Eager Samsung fans have been waiting patiently for their chance to purchase the long-awaited Galaxy S III on June 21 (for some carriers, anyway), but that wait could turn out to be longer than expected if Apple has their way.

Facebook-integrated career site Identified announced  a $21 million Series B round of financing and three new hires today, including a director of product. A number of other Facebook platform companies also made recent hires, according to LinkedIn. If your company is hiring new people or making a notable promotion, please let us know. Email mail (at) insidefacebook (dot) com, and we’ll get it into our next post

Facebook’s feature phone applications once again topped our list of pages with the most new Likes this week. The top 20 fastest growing Pages this week gained between 315,271 and more than 2.8 million Likes. We compile this list with our  PageData  tool, which tracks page growth across Facebook

According to WiiUDaily (and we’re confirming), the games shown at E3 are native at 720p resolution, a considerable step down from the 1080p, 3D-pumping action coming out of the 360 and the PS3 in many cases. Although there is no absolute proof that the Wii U launch titles will all be 720p, the site noted that “the representative couldn’t confirm whether the games can be upscaled to 1080p, only that the ‘native resolution is 720p for all titles showcased.’” Does it really matter that the Wii U is showing off 720p titles?

Interstate is a project management application for small teams that focuses on providing businesses and developers with easily sharable roadmaps for their projects. The Y Combinator-funded startup which launched out of the incubator’s summer 2011 class is launching version 2 of its service today

FBML apps are set to stop working today as part of the removal of Facebook Markup Language. Facebook also announced that it will remove the live stream plugin from the platform in favor of the comments box. Some old page tab applications and very early canvas games that have not been migrated to the new format will have “FBML Removal” migration enabled today

Shortly after it was reported that nearly 6.5 million LinkedIn account passwords were leaked onto the net, LinkedIn leapt into action and mounted their own investigation.

Early-stage investment firm True Ventures has raised a $205 million third fund.

Back in early May, Quirky and GE announced a contest that had users pitching ideas for everyday objects that could be improved by adding software to the mix. The eventual winner was — surprisingly enough — a smart milk jug that could tell users when their milk was going bad as well as when to buy some more.

Nexage , a mobile ad exchange using real-time bidding, has raised $10 million in Series B funding. The round was led by SingTel Innov8, the venture arm of Asian telecom company SingTel. Nexage CEO Ernie Cormier says Singtel is approaching this like any other venture investment, and that “there’s no requirement int the funding that we do X, Y, and Z for SingTel.” At the same time, there are likely to be some partnership opportunities, especially given Cormier’s stated “desire to expand our footprint into Asia.” The company claims that last year, bid volume in the exchange grew more than 70 percent each month